Spotkanie na grzbiecie rosnącej fali
An Encounter on the Crest of a High Wave

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes an analysis of the encounter between Merry Pranksters and Hell’s Angels that took place in the mid-sixties in California. The objective was to understand the complex and ambiguous logic and dynamics of that encounter: from the first contacts to a temporary alliance, built mostly during the joint LSD parties, and the final conflict that had also its political expression. The events descri- bed have been put in the wider context of the rise and fall of the American coun- terculture and yet presented basically in their singularity. Main points of reference were the writings of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe.

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